Its going to linger on for some more days/weeks. Wizards wont ban anything in anticipation for the new set's impact. In a few weeks though, if this astrofest/urofest show keeps on, they will think of those two cards + veil. Veil banned alone will just buff the uro decks more, because its also a pro...

gkourou God, you are unwilling to see past your biases and dishonest. One Challenge invalidates the last Challenge and Super Qualifier and numerous Prelims where Thoughtseize/Push are the most played cards? And this was only in the last week. Thoughtseize was a serious ban contender when Mono-B was...

Pioneer is a lot more diverse than Modern, at least. You can do well with a number of decks and even if there was a best deck(I doubt inverter is the best deck anymore), there are a series of choices for you to win with. MIdrange(Niv mizzet, Sultai delirium is tier 1, big red /w chandras, glorybrin...

Why? You think its actually a healthy card in any sense? In what way is it even remotely defensible design? I mean it gives you 3 life doesn't it? :P Seriously though, I don't think that Uro is a problem especially in formats like Modern.. I think the problem lies with pushing one or more colors un...

Yes, its always been allowed, and if you were losing to that loop, and I beat many a player with it on Arena, you could simply concede because there was literally no chance of winning, outside of a clock in MTGO. Further, I've been looking at what TheBoulderer was saying, and looking at Uro further...

This right here is the forest and most of us here seem to agree that the gap between Tier 1 and Tier 2 are larger than it was ever. What you are saying is not true (at least for me and for some other posters here). It's not all black & white. What do I mean? During 2015, you could play a deck l...

About me saying you have a tone, I believe I wasn't the only one. Actually it was just you. On the other hand, you've been asked to back up your claims many times and you've consistently refused to and/or belittled those that asked you, while you keep on preaching those positions. Your points were ...

You are looking at some trees, while I am looking at the forest, to be honest. My forest and everybody's forest (but the fanboys) is that Modern's gap is too big. And my forest and what I am trying to talk you is that I can no longer play decks like Jeskai Control and do well. In that one, you resp...

gkourou How does a small period where Jeskai control was T2 and some people T8'd somehow dismantle my argument that Jeskai control always was and always will be an inferior option to UW because of its flawed concept resting on the nature of its comprising colors? A few top 8s -where UW had more ove...

gkourou I searched mtgtop8 for both Jeskai and UW (and Azorius) control for the periods 1/1/2018 to 1/1/2019 and same starting date to 2020. In the first period there are only 8 Jeskai Control decks, while in the second (overlapping) there are 226. A marked increase to be sure. Because as idSurge s...

1) Jeskai was not only viable and Tier 1 during 2018, but had the 3rd-most Modern GP Top 8s. Maybe you don't remember the period well enough. I don't know if you were participating in mtgs or playing Modern, but Jeskai was so good, we all collectively agreed T5feri is the card that finally makes Je...

DRS is dying to bolt, while astrolabe does not and redraws a card. Listen, i would be perfectly fine if they banned Astrolabe and then reprinting it in MH, without it drawing a card off of it. "Dies to removal" is not in any way a reasonable counter argument to the viability of a creature...

I'd also be curious where those numbers concerning UW Control come from, because with Path+Verdict and maybe 1 Timely Reinforcements in the main, plus RIP out of the board, as well as being a 4x Field of Ruin, UW Control has been historically good vs ETron, GTron as well as aggro. Not Amulet Titan,...

I can't see Simic/Temur Urza cutting almost anything for Kinnan. Emry is leaps and bounds better and Amber is almost always a dead card (those decks are not even playing it). Him having synergy with Amber/Astrolabe is irrelevant to Urza decks. I see him getting played in Druid/Comany decks where bot...

Anyone able to paraphrase Sam Blacks article? Based on the headline he feels Companion is the worst thing since Phyrexian Mana lol. It looks like the reaction new card types or the colorless mana symbol or Meld had. New things that many players can't accurately judge its impact. Hell, Planeswalkers...

About that, 9/10 of my last posts are about Modern metagame and the health of the current Modern format. I have also been posting regularly Preliminary and Challenges/PTQ's/Super Q's and the replies are usually zero or one. People are ignoring those kind of posts nowadays and focusing into Twin, Le...

I made it quite clear I was talking about paper, whilst also pointing out that the US tends to be more U than elsewhere. I have played a lot of 30-50 player events over the years in paper- there is always much more diversity than you see online as people want to play "their" deck. There i...

Legacy is way more diverse than Modern. In Legacy you simply have to remember that the gap between top and bottom is small. Playing fringe stuff vs top tier I have literally played games where my opponent has not played even a cantrip as they got locked out. That leads to a better diversity, every ...

Why doesn't a very consistent T3-4 deck that can easily protect its combo see more play? Because it can't really defend it on T3-T4 against Thoughtseize/Multiple counters and most of all T3feri. Even the GR Midrange that was popular in the last challenge and the past few weeks can really slow it do...

Sorry if this is a bit off-topic, but I thought rule 11 (Abilities which bring card(s) you own from outside the game into the game (such as Living Wish; Spawnsire of Ulamog; Karn, the Great Creator) do not function in Commander) implicitly shut down the Companion mechanic. Were they going to try an...

Removal doesn't seem that good to play that much of in Commander, at least multiplayer. Mind you, I don't play Commander, so I could be way off. Depends on your meta and your deck, but most non-cEDH decks run 2-3 Wraths and up to 3-5 spot removals. My Niv-Mizzet Reborn has like 4 wraths and 8 spot ...

Affinity was good all that time because it was fast enough as an aggro deck, which what Opal gave it. As you've seen, now Affinity can't even compete. Imagine if you made Infect/Burn/Mono-R one turn slower, almost no-one would play them. The Opal ban was premature, we couldn't know how good Urza dec...

Edit: @Zoulis, I know I half-insulted you a few posts back, but here you go again. "Just play Grixis Urza". I mean what is that? Keep thoughts like that to yourself, thank you very much. Half insulted me? Ok bud. It'd be really great if you actually understood both my tone and my point -y...

My idea though, is to speak about ideas, not call other people out, so this is the reason I am abstaining from interacting with your posts. Just keep it civil please and I would appreciate it if you would not be that aggressive. Please, do not continue this, because there are better things to talk ...

This is why 2015 was the golden era for Modern. Everything was literally playable. I was also on Twin, Grixis Control and Grixis Delver(plus Amulet). All of my decks were banned, or became irrelevant(Delver was also nerfed from Probe), and Amulet was irrelevant for many years, up to now. Tron was a...